WHO’S WHO IN THEATRE FORTY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jim Jahant, Chairperson Lya Cordova-Latta Dr. Robert Karns Charles Glenn Myra Lurie Frederick G. Silny, Treasurer David Hunt Stafford, Secretary Gloria Stroock Bonnie Webb Marion Zola ARTISTIC COMMITTEE Gail Johnston • Roger K. Weiss • Alison Blanchard Diana Angelina • John Combs • Leda Siskind ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF David Hunt Stafford . .Artistic/Managing Director Jennifer Parsons . .Bookkeeper Richard Hoyt Miller . .Database Manager Philip Sokoloff . .Director of Public Relations Jay Bell . .Reservationist Dean Wood . .Box Office Manager Susan Mermet . .Assistant Box Office Manager Larry Rubinstein . .Technology Guru Rachel Stander . .Web Mistress PRODUCTION STAFF Artistic/Managing Director David Hunt Stafford Set Design Jeff G. Rack Costume Design Michèle Young Lighting Design Brandon Baruch Sound Design Joseph “Sloe” Slawinski Hair/Wig/Makeup Design Judi Lewin Photographer Ed Kreiger Program Design Richard Hoyt Miller Publicity Philip Sokoloff Reservations & Information Jay Bell / 310-364-0535 THEATRE FORTY PRESENTS The 3rd Production of the 2019-2020 Season FIFTEEN MEN IN A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM BY COLIN SPEER CROWLEY DIRECTED BY JULES AARON PRODUCED BY DAVID HUNT STAFFORD Set Designer...........................................................JEFF G. RACK Costume Designer............................................MICHÈLE YOUNG Lighting Designer.........................................BRANDON BARUCH Assistant Lighting Designer ...................................NICK FORAN Sound Designer..............................JOSEPH “SLOE” SLAWINSKI Hair/Wigs/Makeup Designer.................................JUDI LEWIN Stage Manager ........................................................NICK FORAN Assistant Director............................................ROGER K. WEISS DIRECTOR’S NOTE A radio newscaster in Colin Speer Crowley's Fifteen Men in a Smoke-filled Room: about today’s headlines. "Yes, ladies and gentlemen - another day, another scandal! It seems like nothing can prevent further improprieties from staining President Harding and his administration prior to this years midterm elections. The blazing spotlight of impropriety has now focused its glare on Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty.... Congressmen from both parties can only wonder if there will be an end to the wide- spread corruption sweeping the nation's capital...." This broadcast happened in the early twenties during Warren G. Harding's term of office. If these words sound familiar now, wel- come to the World of President Harding and the infamous Teapot Dome Scandal. Political pundits thought the United States would never be in a worse political state. Watch this riveting play and draw your own conclusions. — Jules Aaron THE CAST FIFTEEN MEN IN A SMOKE-FILLED ROOM BY COLIN SPEER CROWLEY Florence Kling Harding..........................................ROSLYN COHN* Harry M. Daugherty .................................................JOHN COMBS* George Harvey/Waiter ...........................................KEVIN DULUDE Warren G. Harding ..................................DAVID HUNT STAFFORD* Nan Britton.............................................................SARAH WALKER Radio Broadcaster ................................................ROGER K. WEISS Special Thanks to Dialect Coach, LINDA BRENNAN SETTING Time: The night of Friday, June 11th, 1920 Location: The Florentine Room and the Restaurant of the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Illinois Fifteen Men In A Smoke-Filled Room will play without intermission *Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association WHO’S WHO ROSLYN COHN (Florence Kling Harding): Last Season at Theatre 40, The Sound of Murder, directed by Adrian Cohen, 2018 Scenie Award Outstanding Ensemble for 26 Pebbles, directed by Jules Aaron - also Broadway World nominated Best Featured Actress and Best En- semble, 2018 Broadway World nominated Best Leading Actress as Olivia in director Jules Aaron’s Mr. Pim Passes By at Theatre 40, 2017 Broadway Wo rld nomi- nation and Eddon Award as Sybil in Jules Aaron’s pro- duction of Separate Tables at Theatre 40, 2017 LA Broadway World nomination and Eddon Award as Bella in director Larry Eisenberg’s pro- duction of Lost In Yonkers at Group Rep. 2017 Scenie Award for Out- standing Ensemble in director/author Daniel Henning’s The Tragedy of JFK as told by William Shakespeare at The Blank/Skylight Theatre. 2014 Broadway World nomination as Best Female Cabaret Artist in dif- fiCult to leave about my 23 years in the Cult of Scientology - lost to Chita Rivera and the entire show can be seen on Youtube. Broadway: Na- tional Actors Theatre’s Tony Nominated Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse. TV: The Guest Book, Great News, Chernobyl: America, In- credible Crew and General Hospital. Film: The Guilt Trip, Night Falls on Manhattan, Hollywood Familia, et al. Multiple Festival Winner for Es- sential Tremors, my short about my neurological disease of the same name. For more see www.Roslyn Cohn.com & IMDB. JOHN COMBS (Harry M. Daugherty): John has appeared on CA stages in All My Sons, Stories from the Zone, Mr. Pim Passes By, Sherlock Holmes and the Jersey Lily, Separate Tables, Being at Home With Claude, Twelfth Night, A Midsum- mer Nights Dream, A Shred of Evidence, An Ideal Hus- band, The Will, The Love List, Peace In Our Time, I Never Sang for My Father, Liberty Inn, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Second Coming, Arcadia, Opening Night, A Quartet, A Lie of the Mind, The Constant Wife, Meantime at HoJo’s, Sunny Afternoon, The Bay at Nice, Trial By Jury, The Man Who Had All the Luck, & Louis Slotin Sonata. Television: Days o f Our Lives, Law & Order, Weeds, Judging Amy, Crossing Jordan, Family Law, LA Dragnet, The Dis- trict, Eagleheart, and recently guest starred on The Hunt with Al Pacino, and Sneaky Pete. KEVIN DULUDE (George Harvey / Waiter): This is Kevin’s first appearance with Theatre 40 and he feels honored at the opportunity. Prior to this, he has spent the last few seasons perform- ing with Unbound Productions in their annual horror themed presentation of Wicked Lit at the Mountain View Mausoleum. Kevin can also been seen entertaining au- diences with his one-man shows. In Shadow of the Vil- lain, Kevin uses old-fashioned storytelling and song, as he plays eight different characters to share one man’s WHO’S WHO descent into the darkness. In Hepburn Sings!, he portrays the actress and American icon, Katharine Hepburn, in a semi-musical journey through her life. And in Inside Vincent Price, he performs the title role, as the King of Horror is forced to listen to a radio tribute to his life at the moment of his death. In past productions, Kevin has also appeared as Clark Gable, Otto Preminger and Bette Davis, so beware dead leg- endary celebrities, you may be next! DAVID HUNT STAFFORD (Warren G. Harding) is a graduate of Cal. Arts theatre school in Valencia, California. Curren tly he is the Artistic/Managing Director of Theatre 40 and has performed in over 70 plays here including Kin, The Circle, Black Coffee, The Little Foxes, The Norman Con- quests, Japanese Death Poem, Quartermaine's Terms, Heartbreak House, A Lie of the Mind, Arms and the Man, Our Town, and Morning's At Seven. Other performance credits include The Browning Version, On Borrowed Time, Confusions, Orphans of the Storm, Ed Simpson's The Battle of Shallowford, Prin, Translations, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Misanthrope, Tanglin' Hearts and his one-man show The Lights of My Life. His television and film credits are nume rous but in- clude M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, The Jayne Mansfield Story, Possums, and Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind among others. SARAH WALKER (Nan Britton): Sarah is thrilled to make her California theatre debut! She is originally from North Carolina and received her BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Utah. Credits include Lily in Annie, Kylar in Bring it On: The Musical, and Sillabub in CATS. Love to Carleton, family, and friends. ROGER K. WEISS (Radio Broadcaster / Assistant Director): Roger is a Theatre 40 member who last appeared on our stage in Stories From The Zone. He has been performing on area stages for more than thirty years. A long-time member of the acclaimed horror troupe Urban Death, Roger is best known for his comedic roles in Turbo Tartuffe (L.A. Weekly Award nomination), The Odd Couple (Hunting- ton Beach Playhouse), Sylvia (O.C. Weekly Award nom- ination), Hospitality Suite (Camino Real Playhouse), and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Cabrillo Playhouse). Wear- ing his Director's hat, Roger was the assistant director for our produc- WHO’S WHO tions of Renovations For Six, Screwball Comedy, and Sherlock Holmes and the Jersey Lily. Roger has directed more than a dozen plays in the L.A. area in the last few years, including The Hypochondriac (Stage Raw Top 10), Remember My Name, Witch Ball, and Republic County at North Hollywood's ZJU Theater, The Naked Yogi at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and a sold-out run of Tina Howe's The Art of Dinitng a the Charles Stewart Howard Playhouse. www.rogerkweiss.com JULES AARON (Director): Jules' last productions for Theatre 40 were the critically acclaimed 26 Pebbles, Mr. Pim Passes By, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, Separate Tables, the Seri- comedy, The Consul, the Tramp and America's Sweet- heart and A Shred of Evidence (with a great performance by David Hunt Stafford). Jules previously directed Under- currents and the acclaimed productions of The Circle, Kin, The Gamester and Blonde Poison (with the